Returning.

As I'm done with school and slowly heading home, I've been thinking alot about community, family, and why I am who I am. I have also been thinking about how I have a responsibility to those people and to those places. They have given themselves into me, helping to shape who I am, and I have a responsibility towards them. As I return home, fresh from nine months of pouring into my studies, and being poured into by my professors and classmates, I have a responsibility to Hillsdale College now. I have a responsibility to allow what I have learned to change me, and to bring that to Lancaster.

I love wearing "Hillsdale College" across the front of my shirt. It reminds me that I am not just an individual human being with personal desires and dreams. I am not just one person who must strive towards my own benefit. I am part of something much greater, part of a community of minds and hearts and souls that have learned and grown together in the last year. I owe it to them, and I owe it to the college itself to seek to apply my knowledge, and to give to others what Hillsdale has given to me.